Dear foreign doctor, are you dreaming of a medical specialty in Germany? Are you learning or planning to begin learning the German language? Some good news and bad news… But is the final balance more good or bad?

During the previous weeks, I and many of my doctor friends, were very frightened by the rumors that spread like fire in the German medical specialty-related facebook groups. These rumors, to the best of the understanding of me and some of my friends, talked about language and medicine exams for ALL foreign doctors coming to German. These rumors also profoundly shacked the German Residency dreams of us because they also talked how there will be no more thing as “Temporary Working Permit”. In other words, your parents should be affording the price of your stay in German (For weeks? Months? Years?) until you can pass these tests and be eligible for a working permit. Hence, starting to receive a salary. Is this true? This is very frightening! I tried to relieve my fears by not searching about the topic. Beside, rumors are still rumors. Nothing is 100% certain. When the next year comes, things would become more and more clear. Today, I found the following great German article which talks how one German state is doing to change how it deals with foreign doctors coming to work in it. This great article was posted at the Language Geneartion Center (LGC) facebook group by Frau Dr. Renat Asali. Dr. Asali is the head of the LGC center and a professor at the German department at the University of Jordan. Dr. Asali knows a lot about medical specialty in Germany. Moreover, I think that she has been so far teaching German in Jordan for +20 years. I am mentioning Dr. Asali’s qualifications mainly because I do not know how good the website that published the article (although it has a very excellent design like those of famous American newspapers). I cannot trust that website. However, I think that I can trust Dr. Asali! In addition to the above qualifications, I know Dr. Asali personally. Dr. Asali is now my German language teacher at LGC! With the help of Google Translate, I think that I understood most of the very informative article chosen by my teacher (Here is a link to the article translated by Google Translate). I will try to summarize what I understood. Hopefully, you can correct any mistakes I will make. Together, we can arrive at a better understanding. Let me start with some good news. The article confirms the shortage of physicians in Germany. The shortage of physicians is still in thousands. Certainly, this would not change in months or even years:

Here comes the bad news. The article talks how “in the past”, foreign physicians were allowed to work in Germany without having their “Language skills” examined:

So, having passed the B2 level is no longer thought of to be a good “surrogate” marker for the ability of the foreign doctors to deal with German patients. The article mentions example about how (1) foreign physicians are not communicating well with patients, that (2) they are not as good as their German counterparts, and unfortunately enough, and (3) that German patients are now forced to be treated by doctors from countries in which they would voluntarily not be treated by whom. Therefore, “One” German state, wants to allow this situation no more. This German state is Rheinland-Pfalz/Rhineland-Palatinate.

Update 25/07/2014: Dear colleagues, I have published 381 posts in this blog since 2007. My blog post’s views show that this post is now the fifth most famous post in my blog… I was therefore encouraged to publish more about medical specialty in Germany. There is now a separate section in my blog titled “Doctors Going to Germany“. Moreover, I now have a Facebook group with the same name (Doctors Going to Germany)… Find the full details about how to explore my Blog’s posts and about hte Facebook group in this post:

56 Comments:

hello! thank you for all your information on your blog. i also just graduated from medical school in mexico and i want to do my specialty in germany. i am worried about this knowledge and language test that you posted that they may require. do you have any information on which books one can study? which states are better to apply for a position as a resident of internal medicine? also, is it very difficult to get a job before getting the degree recognized (as you need B2) first.

i am sorry for all the questions its just that i dont know anybody from my school who has gone to germany so i have no one to ask, just the information i find online.

Thank you for you email. The books one need to study are in German. I was told that the exam tests general knowledge. It is an oral exam. One starts studying for it as soon as he finishes the B2 level. You cannot study for it while outside Germany! It is not like the USMLE! One should be in Germany in order to improve his langauge and learn the German medical terms. I am not worried about this exam. After all, it might not be started next year in a sate other than the state specified in my Article.

Internal medicine is vey easy to get. I do not know further info where to apply. However, isolated areas are one of the easiest places to get a specialty in.

Concerning getting a job before passing the langauge and medical tests: The rumors say that you cannot work before passing these tests. Nothing is yet confirmed! Some fo the rumors say that all will beging in 2014. I am not good enough yet in German to research the subject. Plus, they might change their opinion before the new year. When the new year comes, everything will be more clear.

Almost 12+ students from my faculty went to Germany. At least 150+ from my country. However, the situation nowadays is harder than it was a few years ago. The competition is high and many doctors knew about specialty in Germany.

As a result, one should have a lot of money for months of unpaid training in Germany before getting a salary.

I heard about the Obama Care in the USA. I think that if it got applied, then the residency positions will increase by thousands. I think this would be a much cheaper option for you! Provided that Obama care is applied.

This is most what I know for now. I think that things will be clear after the beginning of the new year. All the rumors put 1/1/2014 as the date of starting these exams.

hello brother,
i am Shahnawaz from pakistan . i have done my mbbs from china and wanna admission in post graduate program in pathology or MD program in german university . i don’t know how can i do. what documents are needed for it. what test i have to pass. please give some information for admission . thanks

Firstly, it is an honor that you made a comment in my Blog :). Secondly, yes, I think too that Jordanian doctors are mostly good when compared with graduates of countries like ours. Nonetheless, I and many of my friends chose the German route of residency having great dreams about how easy the situation is. The suggested exams are probably easy-to-normal (if they were applied in the first place). I respect the right of German patients to have good doctors taking care of them. At least, in terms of their language skills!

The positive side of reading such article as the above is that one would work more to improve his language skills. The situation is not like two or three years ago. More doctors are now traveling to Germany. Hence, one needs to improve his skills in order to be able to compete efficiently.

hey ..thnx i read the article n it helped me gather information about workin here .. i am an mbbs dr from pakistan and came to germany few months back bcz my husband works here .. i have done just the a1 level n will continue the rest in july . im just too afraid of working here ..i mean i did mbbs in english n now studying the whole medical fr basics to end in german is a big deal ..isnt it??

Thank you for your comment. This is the same situation for me when to comes to having learnt meidcine in English. It requires a lot of time to repeat the main medical knowledge we studied in German. But what can I do? The Match in the USMLE is getting harder year after year and the residency positions are fewer and fewer. I

Sir, i’m a graduate doctor from india dreaming to do my speciality in Germany and i’m taking the B2 classes in German at present plz tell me how to apply for housemanship post in Germany, i heard that first i have to secure a job & later we have to apply for studying speciality in Germany, how far is it true? Sorry if i’m totally mislead in this matter ‘coz i’m just seeking knowledge from internet. Plz also tell me in detail how to get to germany for speciality training. Thank you in advance:)

I graduated from medical school last June. I am learning German since July. I need one-two months to get the B2 certificate. I do not have exact information about the steps required from me as I am postponning everything till I get the B2 certificate. There is a great Arabic Web Site that explains specialty in German from A-Y. Maybe you can give it a try with Google Translate:

# I was recently told by one doctor that you can apply for medical license from outside Germany. However, I never heard more about this. Therefore, one needs to be in Germany and go apply for medical license.

# Most of the German states will give doctors a temporary working permit while they prepare for medical exams. This ranges from six-months to two years. However, with the current high competition in Germany, you need a very good level of German, and practical experience in the desired specialty, in order to find a residency position. What decreaes the chances of finding a job is also that many hospitals are now asking for permnanent working permit (Approbation).

Because of visa restrictions, you cannot work in other jobs. You will be deported.

The steps are simple. Armed with your B2, you are “technically” eligible to apply for Training positions in Germany. As simple as that. However, the ground realities diifer.

1. Most hosppitals demand a higher language certificate (c1) and a certifcate of B2-C1 Medical German.

2. Most hospitals need you have “Approbation” even before they grant you an interview. The challenge here is to time your stay in Germany so that you are able to prepare and appear for the “Equivalency Exam” in a stretch. Many candidates find it difficult due to Visa-(tenure) issues and end up making more than one trip.

3. Most important, the consulates are also very demanding nowadays and issue visas only to such candidates who they think have intimate knowledge of the procedure.

Dear Dr Jameel,
First off, allow me to thank you on the excellent job you’re doing. I have learned a lot from this singular article. Again, thank you.
I have a few questions if you don’t mind. I am a non-European citizen about finishing my medical studies in Hungary (another EU country) and I wish to later practice and further my medical career in Germany. 1. Do you know if Germany allows the young doctor to pursue a PhD and residency at the same time, assuming I am working in a university hospital? 2. Talking of university hospitals, how easy are they to get in for foreigners? 3. Do some of these PhD posts pay? 4. I have started learning German, but have postponed because of the demanding work of final year. However, I plan to spend about 8-10 weeks later in a language school in Berlin later this year. Is this enough to reach up to the B2 level in an intensive programme? 5. How do you find interaction with both your German colleagues and patients? Any discrimination? (This is particularly important to me as I’m black and a muslim). 6. Finally, what is the average salary of an intern in, say, internal medicine per month after tax?
I would be very grateful if you could take some time out of your busy schedule to answer all or some of my questions in your earliest convenience.
Thank you so much.
Regards,
Abdul.

I hope that you are doing fine. I want firstly to clarify that I am still in Jordan. I finished medical school last June. I need at least 4 months to travel to Germany.

# .”.. am a non-European citizen about finishing my medical studies in Hungary”: European Union citizens have a lot of advantages (what I know of, that they can be given work permit without any exams, like doctors from outside the EU). Moreover, EU citizens are preferred to others because of similarities in cuclture and customs. Regarding this last point, I do not think it is a problem for the rest of Europeans.

# Regarding being black and Muslim: There are a lot of areas in Germany with Turksih majorities. I think that muslims are welcomed there. The last time I read, I think that Muslims in Germany are 4 million. There are mutliple facebook groups about specializing in Germany, from what I read, the Germans are mostly open-minded when it comes not to Niqaba, sometimes Hijab, and men having beards.

# University hospitals are the best. However, they pay less and there are tougher residency exams. I do not know how easy it is for a foreigner to go there. However, it is harder than regular hospitals. What I understood, a person needs to improve his medical and language skills in remote hospitals, then he can apply at university hospitals. Unless of course, this is a speculation of mine, that a person has an impressive CV (research, prizes, German clinical experience, impressive langugae, etc).

– http://www.research-in-germany.de: You can throught this website explore empty research positions throughout Germany. It was also recommended by the DAAD regional office in Jordan.

# When you are at a University hospital, I thinkt hat you are getting also an Academic degree (Master) [Do you think that a doctor can be doing residenncy, getting a master, and doing a PhD at the same time?]. A medical doctor can directly enter into PhD in Germany. However, this is without residecy. Can anyone combine residency and PhD? I do not think so.

# Salaries: I almost always heard, >2,000 Euro afte taxes. When you are allowed to do nightshifts, this can easily increase to at least 3,000 Euro.

# Interactions with patients and colleagues: I am not yet there 🙂 However, I did not hear anything particularly alarming!

Dear Dr Jameel,
Thank you for your prompt reply. Really appreciated. It’s an oversight on my own side not to have understood that you were not yet in Germany. I apologize for the misunderstanding. Still, soon you’ll be there. So, wishing you all the best!
I had chosen to be notified of any replies or follow-up comments on your blog via email but I don’t get any. Do you think the problem is from your blog? Because I receive alerts from other blogs that I follow via my gmail.
I have gone through the links you’ve provided. I’ve found them very useful to say the least.
As I am still behind, you will hopefully get to start working in Germany before me. And I do hope and pray that you will continue the good work you’ve started on this blog-giving free useful info for prospective doctors,even better from your firsthand experience.
I will continue to follow your blog.
Please keep up the good work.
Again, thank you for all your help.
Kind regards,
Abdul.

Thanks for your nice wishes and the sophisticated reply. You use English very beautifully.

Concerning the notifications problem, blog owners do not have anything to do with that. Our blogging provider (WordPress) handles it. Maybe you did not check the “notification” option or maybe you did not confirm following the blog in your email. Or maybe the notifications emails are in your spam.

I do not blog only about the specialty in Germany. Thanks for your request. When I know important information, I will publish them in my Blog. I hope that I will have time to do that.

Regarding your beginning to learn the German language, as they say in German, Viel Glück (a lot of luck).

Dear Dr. Jameel,
Thank you for your kind words. Actually, English is the official language in my country. I do hope that some day my German will be great, even though I’m pretty sure will never be as excellent as my English.
Your mastery of many languages is quite remarkable also. I can see that some of your posts are in Arabic and German. Great! 🙂
I always choose to be notified every time I post on your blog. But it’s OK. I’ve now bookmarked this blog. So I can peep in once in a while to say hi and/or get some useful info. I wish I could contribute about info on medical specialization in Germany, but so far I haven’t gathered enough. 🙁
It doesn’t matter if you don’t always write about medical specialization in Germany. I can always read your entertaining posts…as long they are in English…or German (my German is terrible, but I’ll try. He he he).
Have a nice day.
Kind regards,
Abdul.

Thank you for your message and for your nice words (again). I do not think that you can depend on my blog to enhance your knowledge about medical specialty in Germay. I really do not have a lot of time because I have a lot of researches and German studies. I might blog in the future especially when I arrive at Germany.

Concerning the email notifications, I committed myself to write a daily diary in German. Therefore, you will get daily notifications of Geramn posts from my Blog. I think it is better that you unsubscribe.

Hellow, thank you for your blog and supporting spirit, I’m a resident of urology from iraq, and I have a schoolarship to have my speciality in germany, do you think it is possible to get an initial conditional acceptance from a university hospital without the b2, given that I will bring this level in a year, like the saudi doctors do, the problem is in iraq we dont have companies that provide facilities for speciality training in germany like jordan, I tried to contact german hospitals directly and I could get a practicum , yet no I couldnt get any chance of specialty training.
Thank you

I hope that you are doing fine. I finished medical school last June and I have never been to Germany yet. I therefore do not have a lot of experience and my information is from facebook groups and Jordanian doctors and students that I interact with.

“do you think possible to get an initial conditional acceptance from a university hospital without the b2”. I do not understand exactly what you mean by “scholarship”. However, for all Jordanian doctors that I know, and two assistant professors at my prevoius faculty, all of them had the B2 certificate before starting to apply to residency positions. I have never ever heard that you can get accepted without the B2 certificate. However, what is I am 99% sure of, is that you cannot get a working permit without having at least the B2 certifiacte. There are often exceptions. I do not know if there are in your case.

I am from Pakistan and I am studying in Romania. I am in my fifth year now. I am taking german language courses too. In couple of months I will reach B2 level.
Do u think I will have a chance to get residency in Germany in 2015 keeping changes implemented by some german states.?

I do not see why you will not get a residency. The changes that took (?), or will take place, are only to assess the language skills and medical knowledge of foregin medical doctors wanting to work in Germany.

I am a Nigerian,a Medical student in Ukraine currently in my 5TH year of study.I want to inquire for June 2015 when i will complete my 6th year(graduate from medical school)
As i understand i need to learn German language to be able to specialize in Germany.I have 2 question
(1)Can i get a visa after my graduation to language school in Germany
(2)After completing the language school,do i have an assurance of getting an hospital for my specialty immediately?
(3)Are there special requirements to meet before one is been admitted for specialty?
(4)Is there any source of income during language course
(5)During specialty are the specialty students paid?If yes how much averagely.
Please,i will really appreciate if you can answer my questions in details
Looking forward to your reply.
Thanks

I am a Nigerian,a Medical student in Ukraine currently in my 5TH year of study.I want to inquire for June 2015 when i will complete my 6th year(graduate from medical school)
As i understand i need to learn German language to be able to specialize in Germany.I have 2 question
(1)Can i get a visa after my graduation to language school in Germany
(2)After completing the language school,do i have an assurance of getting an hospital for my specialty immediately?
(3)Are there special requirements to meet before one is been admitted for specialty?
(4)Is there any source of income during language course
(5)During specialty are the specialty students paid?If yes how much averagely.
Please,i will really appreciate if you can answer my questions in details
Looking forward to your reply.
Thanks

1) Anyone can!
2) No!
3) Doctors outside the EU are less and less accpted in highly competitive specialties. They say the language is the most important factor. I recently also started to hear that experience in the desired specialty is important. Connections.
4) I think that you are not allowed to work with any type of visa other than “Arbeitvisum (Working visa)”. The visa that you are given for language school is eitehr C (schingen) or D. I understood that if you were caught working, you will be kicked out of Germany.
5) Average salaries not less than 2,000 Euro. When you advance in residency, you can get extra-shifts and they charge like 20-80 Euro per hour depending on specialty (I am not sure though).

I am not yet in Germany. The majority of my information is from this person or that, and from unofficial Arabic facebook pages and groups about specialty in Germany.

Hi, my name is Jane. I am a doctor working for almost 8 years in Macedonia, Europe. My country is not a part of EU. To get in German hospital you need to have B2 level of German language. That is very hard for a foreigner, because you can not understand the talking and listening at the main test. They have shortage for doctors, but for foreigners it will be very hard…

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Khan Fahim
hallo brother Jameel , i had to inquire somethings from you regarding post graduation in Germany.I have done some initial research on my own .
The major requirements are: 1) have a medical degree recognized by the German medical board 2) have German knowledge upto B2 level.Im working on my german language these days.
My questions are:
1)after completion of B2 how do i apply for job in various hospitals.Are there any reliable agencies that help in this process ?
2)Is it possible to do Phd in any field while doing post-graduation. (MD & Phd together).
3.I contacted an Indian agency and they are asking me to pay 10000 euros in advance to gain entry into German post graduation program.I am attaching a copy of their proposal.
Thank-you in advance.God bless.

1) You go for a hospitasion (clinical attachment). You sharpen your general and medical language skills and then you can apply for interviews to work. However, it is now hard to get work interviews. To get more interviews:
A) C1 Certificate
B) Approbation (recognition of your medicine certficiate in Germany. If it was not recognized, you need to pass a medical exam [Medizin Test]).
C) Passing Medical Language Test

2) PhD or even Master require some time. I do not know if anyone can have enough time do MD and do PhD at the same time. Are you allowed in the first place to study a master or PhD partially a few days a week? Are you allowed not to work most days of the week during residency? I do not think that a person will have time to do both at the same time. However, it would be great if this was allowed.

3) The amount of money this agency is requiring is crazy. In Jordan, for example, an agency requires a total payment of 3,000 Euro (initial pay 2,500). The greatest majority of doctors told me that this is not guaranteed and that 3,000 Euro is a lot of money. How come if the money is like the company you are talking about:

hy mr jameel, i’m a medical student from morocco, i will get my degree in 2016 and i heard that one must apply for a practice training so that it would be easy for him to continue there after graduation. i wish to do so but the probleme is i don’t know how to. it would be great sir if you could give me some information about this either here on your blog or by sending a message on my email whish is (gtadu14@msn.com).please sir accept all my gratitudes. greatings from morocco.

I know some students from Jordan who did their sixth-year elective in Germany. I do not know what steps they did. I just know that you need to have some knowledge of German. You can then probably send emails for training. For sure results, however, please ask your question in two or three of the Facebook groups mentioned above.

How are you? I’ve been reading this article and its comments, first I wanna say thank you so much for sparing your time writing this article and answering all questions, may God bless you 🙂
I’m a medical student in my 3rd year, I’m planning to go to German just like you, so I hope you are will to share your experiences, not your experiences in Germany because I see that in March you were saying thay you are not yet in Germany and prolly would make it in the next 4 months which is July which is now ^^… so how is it? I hope you made it already for all your kindness to others
I wanna know specifically about your preparation..
What did you do, what are you doing to face all the tests? What books what sites what everything ^^
How do yoi study the language?
How many hours you spend your time to study all stuffs for ‘germany dreams’ since you are a medical student also and must be busy of it 🙂
How much money did you spend for it?
I really hope to know all the answer because what I can conclude from your article is that you have that big dream and huge optimism to reach your goal, it lookes like you are ready with every test and will not give up how hard it is, I’d love to see it
I hope you success
Best regard,

Medical exams are a little bit hard. However, they are pass/fail exams and according to what I read in facebook groups, few fail them. After you finish the language levels, you can begin to study German medical books. However firstly, one should start with communication skills (History taking, physical examination and counseling-related skills). According to what I read, this book is more than enough: http://www.amazon.de/Deutsch-f%C3%BCr-%C3%84rztinnen-%C3%84rzte-Kommunikationstraining/dp/3642013333

Hi.. I am dr. Shriram from india.. Read a lot abt medicine in germany..EXCELLENT BLOG!
.just want to know…do IMGs HAVE to do a thesis in german language??
And…isnt learning MEDICAL german wayy tougher than normal day to day german??

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– Thesis about what? This is my first time to hear about that.
– In my opinion, learning medical german is actually easier because many words are similar to English ones. It is much much easier than reading in German about environmental protection, globalization or preserving the past.

All post graduate courses in most countries…to be recognised… Need a student to submit a thesis at the end of the course. If you go to any country in the world for your degree to be recognised…they require you to have proof of thesis submission. Ask the german universities as u know good german!

At the end, it is probably that there is a thesis after a master program. I do not know why is this important. What is most important though, is that medical doctors can directly get into a PhD program in Germany: amanfrommoab.com/2014/04/22/doctors-medicine-mds-can-get-directly-phd-program-germany-general/

Hello jameel !!
I’m Chirag..An Indian citizen with a medical qialification (MD Physician) from ukraine (non-EU country with similar system to that of germany k/a “Bologna”). Currently I’m planning for further specialization in germany.

I just went through your blog. I think this is the best article one can find for german aspirants. I Thank you very much for such detailed info and replies to the comments. I would be really grateful to you if you could clear a couple more issues I’m mentioning hereby:-

1. How did you apply for specialization? Through an agent or personally to the hospital/university though email? And is it possible to apply personally and get selected? I have read somewhere that agents have good connections and can easily hook you up, but there charges are pretty high.
2. I wanted to go to germany for language course. For this I got an admission in one of german college for MBA, so that it would be easy to get visa and I can learn better language while staying there plus, I will have better opportunity to contact hospitals personally. Do you think this is a nice idea..?
3. What does it take to get selected for specialization? Does it simply require a basic qualification or better grades? I dont have very nice grades coz of poor system, but my level of knowledge is much higher.

Also let us know whether you have made it to germany yet or not? I hope and wish you have really good time ahead. keep us uptodate with your experiences. Thanx again..tc

1) Agents are for free. But since last ear or so, they no longer work with doctors who do not have Approbation (read about it in my Blog and in the group… A lot of information!!!). Alternatively, one can send emails to applly for jobs. Without Approbation, it is almost very hard to get job. There are tens of jobs sites.
2) German college can help you with Visa and get a monthly transport ticket at a low price. A person profits but I do not know if it is legal to “lie” and say that you want to study in university while you are not. One doctor here made that and suggested on me doing that!!! I do not want to bring myself problems and risk my stay in Germany maybe for the rest of my life. Therefore, definitely did not and will not do that.
3) Specialization: Approbation >>> German Language >>> German Language >>> German Language >>> German Language >>> German Language >> Experience in specialty and Hospitations. In university hospitals researches might help too.

I am in Germany since less than seven weeks. I applied for Approbation and doing C1 course. I am not yet applying for job because I want to perfect firstly my German and transporation costs a lot of money not to mention that I do not yet have Approbation.

I am a Medical student studying in China, currently doing a one year Internship program and I will graduate next summer 2015, but then I won’t have “Practising License” in the country where I learn right now. Is it a must to have it? As I searched through German Medical Council and it only says that I have to apply for Approbation or if my Medical degree is not equivalent to German’s then I have to sit for Kenntnisstandprüfung.

As far as I know, the medical license is a MUST. Of course, there are exceptions, but I do not know what they are. In my country all doctors have MEDICLA LICENSE before comign to Germany.

” I have to apply for Approbation or if my Medical degree is not equivalent to German’s “… All those who got their certificates from universities from outside the European Union are not equivalent “until proven otherwise”. The doctor will submit his curriculums to be studied by an expert (Gutachter). The curriculum is compared to that of a German univeristy. If it was found equal, the doctor then is either given German medical license directly (e.g., in Dresden) or, as in Munster and Arnsberg, will have to do a Medical German Language Test.
If judged not equal, the doctor will then have to do the knowledge exam (Kenntnissprüfung). This requires much much more studying than the Medical German Language Test.

One important ponit you need to note here. While your Ukrainian Medical Degree is considered as a recognised Medical degree for futher training in Germany, you also need to have a “Practising License”. So, unless you have registration in the Medical Council in Ukraine, you need to have MCI registration to become eligible to do specialist training in Germany.

Let me also bust some Myths here.

1. No Agent can get you a Training position in Germany.
2. Merely possesin a b2 or C1 of Medical German certification is not enough to obtain a hospital position.
3. Like any other job interview, applicants are judged on a 360 degree basis, not only on grades.
4. The competition is very high now and the best, most motivated candidates stand a chance of getting placed.

So, Please take this step with careful preparation and have a strategy to overcome all the challenges before you take the plunge. Going for one course and trying to do something else is a big NO NO! Visa violations will be identified during the application of extension, and that will be the end of the whole story.

So, approach this straightforward, prepare for lots of hard work and brace for hardknocks. Yes, you will need to bu adequately funded as well. If one takes all this in stride, then the dream will be fulfilled,

hi jameel .. u r doing a nice job i have one question regarding to visa
i heard and read that one must deposit 8000 euros in a closed bank account per year for visa as a proof that they will bear all their finances while they r in germany is it true becoz its a lot of money .. what proof of finance did u show for getting visa?

Exactly… 670 Euro per each month you want to stay in Germany or you can have a German agreeing to sign a document that he will cover any financial requests on your behalf. For more info, search in my blog for “closed bank account”

Hey there,
I wanted to know if I need a medical license from my home country (India). I finished medicine from one of the EU countries (Czech Republic, Germany’s neighbor), so does this mean I need to be licensed in my home country (India) in order to get Approbation?

Hi jameel…this is soham from India.m awaiting my final year results.I request u to answer two of my queries:
I have a few people informing me that we need at least a year of pg training(MD/MS/DNB in home country) to be eligible for pg training in Germany?is there any truth in it?
Secondly, are good grades in graduation and work experience after graduation decisive factors in some way?

Hello,
With a kind Heart i ask you following and am anticipating a reply
I am a medical student who is studying in Russia ( The university is not in the Anabin list ). I am under going a German Language course simultaneously with my Medical Studies.
My intention is to do my internship and later work in German.
I am curious about the internship programs in Germany and ways to process it right after graduating from my med School.
1.please explain me how it is done in German (internships applying procedure )
2. Are we paid in the internship period and if yes how much ?
3. If my university is not in the Anabin list how does the procedure differ ?

I am more concern about the procedure of how to get an internship right after i graduate from my med school and also after i get my German Language Qualification to a level of B2-C1.

I am totally sorry. I totally do not have any information about doing internship in Germany or about being a graduate from a University not listed in the place you mentioned. Never read or was interested to dig more about such topics.